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New Labor Battleground:
The Employee Bathroom

By

Carlos Tejada Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Aug. 28, 2002 12:01 a.m. ET

FREQUENTING FACILITIES: How often can workers take nature calls?

Angie Mattingly's bathroom trips earned her the ire of supervisors. The 25-year-old bottling employee at the Clermont, Ky., Jim Beam Brands Co. plant was cited for violating a company policy meant to limit them. She finally got a note from her doctor that said she has an overactive bladder. But she sympathizes with the rest of her co-workers, who don't have medical...